Q&A with Our Newest Cohort of Placement Students
Freya Goff
Role title: Student Research Associate, Protein and Cellular Sciences
Degree course: BSc Biochemistry with Professional Placement
Q: Why did you choose Bicycle for your placement year?
Freya: Initially, the innovative production of Bicycles in drug design intrigued me and led me to look further into the company. I found that Bicycle’s values and goals really aligned with mine. Also, I felt very valued and supported throughout the interview process, which gave me insight into the way they look after employees here.
Q: What do you hope to achieve during your placement year with us?
Freya: I am mainly just so excited to be part of the work they do here at Bicycle. On a personal level, I hope to improve my independence in the lab and gain valuable experience in industry to help me with my future career.
Q: What are your career aspirations?
Freya: I have always aspired to work in oncology drug development. My main goal is to continue working in this field and hopefully contribute to improving people’s lives!
Q: What is a fun fact about you?
Freya: I have a scuba diving license.
Q: What is your greatest achievement so far?
Freya: Getting my placement at Bicycle.
Q: What is your favorite scientific fact?
Freya: There is enough DNA in one person to stretch from the sun to Pluto 17 times.?
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Rosie Lewis
Role title: Student Research Associate, Molecular Pharmacology
Degree course: I study Biomedical Sciences at the University of Bath.
Q: Why did you choose Bicycle for your placement year?
Rosie: I think it’s exciting to be able to see how drug discovery happens in such an innovative way. From the outset, it was made really clear to me how integral I’d be in a team and be treated like a scientist rather than just a student. Bicycle is a company where you can learn so much about drug discovery. it’s amazing how much of the work happens in-house and how much of the process you get to be involved in.
Q: What do you hope to achieve during your placement year with us?
Rosie: I’m really looking forward to understanding how drug discovery happens in industry. It has already been very exciting to contextualize content from university lectures into real-life situations. With everyone around you being so supportive, you feel like you can develop skills (in the lab and outside) which challenge you, but you never feel out of your depth. I am also excited to get started on my first project, which allows me the opportunity to generate my own data to analyze and present to my team.
Q: What are your career aspirations?
Rosie: I really hope to continue working in drug discovery after I finish my degree. This is a crucial year to help guide my career path and map out what it might look like. I want to continue to work with other people, with the goal being to develop drugs that can help people with all different types of diseases. I think this year will help me determine what I would like to specialize in.
Q: What are your passions?
Rosie: My passion is dancing. I have danced since I was three so it has always been an important part of my life. I was on the committee for the dance society at university last year and was able to compete in different dance styles around the country and perform at the university a few times.
Q: What is your greatest achievement so far?
Rosie: Outside of my academics, my greatest achievement would be organizing a dance show for the dance society at university. I had to organize 150 dancers to put together a two-hour show. It was a great success, with both shows being the first sold out productions at the uni since COVID. Within my academic studies, my greatest achievement would be getting this placement. It was such a tough process, but as soon as I did some research on the company, I was super inspired and motivated to apply. I was thrilled to be offered the role (and couldn’t quite believe it!).
Q: What is your favorite scientific fact?
Rosie: The theoretical number of Bicycles you can make is more than the number of grains of sand on Earth.?